nuke361 Posted May 5, 2004 Report Share Posted May 5, 2004 I just recently istalled Mandrake 10.0 and am reletively new to linux. I have compaq 2195us laptop and a orinoco pcmcia wireless card. mandrake recognizes my card and tells me i'm getting good signal strength. But it won't connect to my wireless access point. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Edit: moved from Hardware by spinynorman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 6, 2004 Report Share Posted May 6, 2004 do you have a WEP key setup? or any security features enabled on your access point? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuke361 Posted May 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2004 not at my house, but i also attend ASU and there is some security features there. But, it dose not work at either place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 try adding the kwifi from add/remove progs.... (it might be plf or contribs) which meansyou need to know how to set up URMPI sources.... (see FAQ or [post back if this is the case) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest skozsert Posted June 9, 2004 Report Share Posted June 9, 2004 My compaq 2178cl has much the same problem(with both a dell truemobile 1150(rebadged orinoco) and a lucent orinoco gold card) [root@localhost james]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"ecrnrh" Nickname:"localhost" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:80:C8:03:B1:94 Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3 Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:30/92 Signal level:-58 dBm Noise level:-88 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 sit0 no wireless extensions. [root@localhost james]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:9D:43:F5:BF inet addr:192.168.0.114 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20d:9dff:fe43:f5bf/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2266 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1003 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1158243 (1.1 Mb) TX bytes:151612 (148.0 Kb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6000 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:28:9B:6E inet6 addr: fe80::202:2dff:fe28:9b6e/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:9 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Interrupt:5 Base address:0x100 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:4114 (4.0 Kb) TX bytes:4114 (4.0 Kb) i tried using kwifi without any success (it does show a signal though) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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